same as Masatog. dw3 brought me into this wonderful world that I love so much. My friend that passed away showed it to me and at first I liked it but never truly loved it or understood much about it.After he passed away I bought it for myself and at first cherished the game because it brought back good memories of our time together as friends. I never really played it for a long time, but when I was 12 I started playing it again and finally understood it and began to love it!After that I bought the rest of the series as well as other 3 kingdoms related games and ever since the series has remained my favorite of all time.

"Change is the law of life. And those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the future. "- President John F. Kennedy

my grandmother used to take us to those big traveling museum exhibits when i was a kid, often in memphis - one year, i was probably about 11 or 12, she took us to see an exhibit on Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire. i was amazed and became a huge Genghis Khan fan, and still am. this transferred to me wanting to read anything i could about the Khan, the mongols - and since there wasn't actually much for me to find, and since he did have a grandson who was a Chinese emperor, China got lumped into "Genghis Khan stuff" for me, and i also started to learn about China.

so then, I'm looking to rent video games - this is about 1991 or so, 6th or 7th grade - and i see RTK II for SNES, and look at the package, and think, "this looks like China/Mongolia battle empire stuff wow!", so i rent it. then i buy it. then i get the library to order me a copy of the book, once i somehow discover it's based on a BOOK (i think the manual probably said so), and i read it, along with a couple of other books on Chinese history that my grandmother gets for me. so then I'm hooked. i order for myself another copy of the book, a different translation (the one i still have today), which gets me wondering about why the names are all spelled differently every time (the first copy the names and places were all Wade-Giles, the second one was Pinyin), so I get curious about the language. so i start trying to learn chinese.

i go to college and graduate school, and it's only in graduate school that i start to meet actual chinese people for the first time, fellow graduate students. i make a point of going to meet the chinese students in my department, i tell them "I know the Three Kingdoms", and I show them that I can count and say some sentences, and of course they're very nice and impressed.

couple of years go by, then, a particular new chinese student arrives - same story, i introduce myself as the 3k aficionado, etc.etc.

Anyway, I love replying to timeless threads every couple of years. I got into the world of RTK with the first Romance of the Three Kingdoms game back on NES. I actually got into Destiny of an Emperor around the same time, but RTK came first by about a year. My oath brother and I were probably in grade 3 or 4, and we used to play the game in his basement, taking notes on what characters had good stats in a little notebook. One of our favourite things to do was execute Ma Teng's messengers!

"We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back."— Roland Deschain, Wolves of the Calla

if you want the ms-dos version i can upload it for ya. its a taiwan version.

I played that game since i was 4 or 6.

"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die. " Sima Yi

I started playing it with the 3 main factions, but Hu Lao gate had a "yellow army" lead by a not selectable guy (Yuan Shao). When Yuan Shao and his own battles were unlocked, i made him my fav. After knowing that all was historical i began to seek info about he and his forces and enjoyed greatly his part on the novel, his mistakes and bold actions and speeches. None of the Kingdoms gave me that motivating feeling. In search of more info, i ended finding Konming Archives, and from there, i jumped here. I consider myself a more than great fan of Yuan Shao and my goal here is to see all his set of characters aligned in DW in a future, at least i want to see Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Tian Feng. While i keep waiting for them, i enjoy ROTK saga where everybody is present.

I had seen the KOEI Games in old issues of Nintendo Power. Games like Genghis Khan and ROTK. I finally bought the game from Funco Land around 18 years ago. Found out it was a novel long before actually playing the game. Have been hooked with Chinese history since I was a boy. That and Medieval Japan.